There’s one point in my comments on Richard Carrier’s On The Historicity of Jesus that’s worth expanding on—I’d initially meant to say more about it, but I was up late enough writing the post as it was. In my previous post, I mentioned that: Carrier, in trying to determine the prior probability that Jesus was [Read More...]

Awhile ago, I read a crappy article on Vice.com about why San Francisco was supposedly the worst place ever. That is literally what they said. I’m not linking, but the headline was “Reasons Why San Francisco Is The Worst Place Ever.” I found on Facebook through one of my techie friends, which was odd because [Read More...]

My copy of Richard Carrier’s On The Historicity of Jesus arrived from Amazon on Monday, and I haven’t had time to read it all, but I want to jot down some first impressions and initial thoughts now, partly because I’m not sure when I’ll find the time to do a proper review. First of all, [Read More...]

Trigger warnings for everything. The bulk of this post is adapted from something I posted to Fetlife awhile back. I decided to post it here after seeing a story about the games creators apologizing for an allegedly transphobic card and removing it from the game. The original impetus for the post though, wasn’t an online [Read More...]

I recently wrote about deciding between philosophy and programming as career options, then gave a talk that, among other things, emphasized the importance of doing what you’re good at. A natural follow-up question here is, how do you tell if you’re good at philosophy? And more specifically, how do you do tell if you have [Read More...]

So I went ahead and ordered Richard Carrier’s new book, but I’m pretty damn apprehensive about it. A lot of this is from having seen his exchange with Bart Ehrman, but there’s also Carrier’s curious tendency to call people who disagree with him insane. I was reminded of this when he posted his list of [Read More...]

In my very first semester in college, in my very first philosophy course, there was a unit on arguments for and against the existence of God. An article by Swinburne was assigned as the rebuttal to an atheist’s article on the problem of evil. However, the professor skipped lecturing on Swinburne. When I asked him [Read More...]

Which I gave last weekend, can be found here. I learned a lot from the ensuing discussion, which is included in the linked audio, so I strongly recommend you give it a listen. The discussion continued after the part recorded above, and during that time someone made an interesting point, relevant to wannabe tech entrepreneurs, [Read More...]

The entire reason I have my current programming job is because of App Academy. App Academy is a great program, because they take people with talent but little programming experience and, after a nine week intensive course, graduates are able to get jobs with starting salaries averaging $100,000 a year. Best of all, you don’t [Read More...]